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The Sheriff Appeal Court has recently considered the question of whether the assignation of a loan also functioned to assign a personal guarantee which related to that loan, writes Ewan Hazelton. In the recent case of McKinlay v Avellierie Ltd & Anr., Sheriff Principal Ross delivered the opinion

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Derek Couper discusses why it is essential that the recent consultation on non-surgical cosmetic procedures leads to swift and decisive action. With the consultation process by the Scottish government over the need for greater regulation around non-surgical cosmetic procedures having concluded, its

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In the final article of the series on the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, the trustees look at an ongoing project that it is supporting. MiniTrials – an initiative begun by Scots lawyers to help schools find out more about the Scottish legal system – simulates court cases and is de

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The Clark Foundation for Legal Education’s first awards were made in 1991. Since then, the foundation has made over 600 awards, write the trustees of the foundation in the fourth article on its history and impact. Past recipients are now senators of the College of Justice, King’s Counsel

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Amber Ockenden from the Intellectual Property Office takes a look at the law surrounding everyone's favourite brick. LEGO was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1932 and, remarkably, the family still owns the company. The name LEGO comes from two Danish words, “leg” and “godt&rdqu

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Professor Andrew Steven explains how the Clark Foundation for Legal Education has enabled more than 100 students to attend an enlightening summer school on the Continent. In 2004, I was invited to lecture on Scots law at the European Private Law Summer School at Salzburg in Austria. The Summer Schoo

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Almira Delibegović-Broome KC reflects on how the Clark Foundation for Legal Education helped her. I applied to the Clark Foundation in 1995, to cover my diploma in legal practice tuition fees at Edinburgh University. At that time, I was still an asylum seeker, having arrived to Scotland in 199

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